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Here is a link to two of my favorite videos from my YouTube "Cool Technologies and Interactive Multimedia" playlist
(Warning: These videos will cause you to think.)
Shift Happens - Did You Know 2.0
Do you trust the information you read on Wikipedia? If anyone can edit content, how do you know who to trust? Would educators accept Wikipedia as a source for research projects if the entry had a high level of trust?
UCSC Associate professor of Comupter Engineering, Luca de Alfaro, developed a "truthiness" rating system that color codes text of Wikipedia articles according to a computed value of trust. The Wiki Lab demo contains a few hundred pages; click here to check it out.
The first day of panels was quite fascinating. Educators had the stage for panels dealing with problems and technologies in higher education, students & children, and scholarly production and publishing. How is public life different now for teens? What do internet technologies mean for students today? Schools need to radically change in order to prepare kids for college and life. (Citizenship was not discussed nor was the commercial nature of many of these online social networks). While educators were on some of the panels, many of them were composed of consultants or company representatives.
Adults are always trying to understand kids, and yet the answer is always just around the corner. The panels all carried a similar theme in the belief that supporting thoughtful changes in our education and social systems (not just investing in teachers but also guidance counselors, social workers and the like) are more important than limiting technology access in addressing critical issues in our society.
